Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 64 71
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,715 1,936 3,445
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.80% 4.25% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 4.61% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 976 2,582
10th Percentile £46,650 £49,625 £43,024
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,907 41,954 86,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.40% 92.11% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,219 22,640 61,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -40 1,547 £75,000 +2.04% 433
UK excluding London -73 851 £65,000 -7.14% 310
Work from Home -27 760 £67,500 -3.57% 228
London -9 727 £85,000 +3.03% 204
North of England -44 336 £69,310 -4.40% 98
South East -28 232 £65,000 -7.14% 101
North West -48 184 £75,000 +3.45% 56
South West -63 88 £52,500 -23.39% 44
Midlands -70 87 £66,250 -3.64% 30
Yorkshire -31 78 £65,000 -13.18% 23
North East +16 74 £65,000 +2.36% 20
West Midlands -40 61 £78,750 +12.50% 20
East of England -23 44 £60,100 -3.84% 12
Wales -31 33 £70,000 +34.62% 12
Scotland -62 28 £60,000 -23.87% 13
East Midlands -62 25 £65,000 +1.96% 10
Northern Ireland -30 6 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.57%) Confluence
2 24 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 15 (0.87%) IIS
4 14 (0.82%) Apache
4 14 (0.82%) CMS
5 10 (0.58%) JBoss
6 9 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.35%) WordPress
9 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.29%) Drupal
9 5 (0.29%) nginx
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) Camunda
10 4 (0.23%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 10 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.35%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.12%) Shopify
7 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 929 (54.17%) AWS
2 745 (43.44%) Azure
3 319 (18.60%) GCP
4 260 (15.16%) Serverless
5 188 (10.96%) GitHub
6 178 (10.38%) SaaS
7 150 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
8 127 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
10 106 (6.18%) Amazon S3
11 90 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 79 (4.61%) Azure Service Bus
13 76 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (4.14%) GitHub Copilot
15 68 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
16 62 (3.62%) Azure AKS
17 60 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
18 57 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
19 48 (2.80%) PaaS
20 46 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.73%) Broadband
2 24 (1.40%) Network Security
3 13 (0.76%) DMARC
4 12 (0.70%) MQTT
5 11 (0.64%) DNS
6 10 (0.58%) Internet
7 8 (0.47%) Firewall
7 8 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.47%) VPN
8 7 (0.41%) AMQP
8 7 (0.41%) DHCP
9 6 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.35%) HTTP
9 6 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.29%) LTE
10 5 (0.29%) RFID
11 3 (0.17%) Modbus
12 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.12%) SNMP
12 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (14.75%) MongoDB
2 199 (11.60%) NoSQL
3 194 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
4 128 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
5 122 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 108 (6.30%) MySQL
7 87 (5.07%) SQL Server
8 80 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 53 (3.09%) Redis
10 51 (2.97%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.63%) Big Data
13 25 (1.46%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.76%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.52%) Db2
17 8 (0.47%) DTS
18 7 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
18 7 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 204 (11.90%) Git
2 165 (9.62%) GitLab
3 136 (7.93%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.38%) TeamCity
5 52 (3.03%) JIRA
6 48 (2.80%) JUnit
7 39 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.81%) Claude Code
8 31 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 31 (1.81%) Mockito
9 28 (1.63%) CircleCI
9 28 (1.63%) Maven
10 19 (1.11%) Selenium
11 17 (0.99%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.93%) Vite
13 15 (0.87%) JMeter
14 14 (0.82%) Postman
15 12 (0.70%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.52%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.52%) Spock
General
1 445 (25.95%) Finance
2 310 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 161 (9.39%) Banking
4 159 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.89%) Retail
6 95 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
6 95 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (5.31%) Law
8 54 (3.15%) Financial Institution
9 49 (2.86%) Back Office
10 31 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.52%) Marketing
13 18 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 17 (0.99%) Advertising
15 16 (0.93%) Billing
16 15 (0.87%) Legal
17 13 (0.76%) Games
18 12 (0.70%) Front Office
19 11 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 603 (35.16%) Developer
2 401 (23.38%) Senior
3 345 (20.12%) Software Engineer
4 248 (14.46%) Lead
5 245 (14.29%) Architect
6 156 (9.10%) .NET Developer
7 145 (8.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 137 (7.99%) Java Developer
9 123 (7.17%) Java Engineer
10 119 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 113 (6.59%) Senior Developer
12 94 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
13 85 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 79 (4.61%) Principal Engineer
15 73 (4.26%) Software Developer
16 66 (3.85%) Lead Developer
17 60 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (2.97%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.57%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (24.37%) .NET
2 385 (22.45%) React
3 366 (21.34%) Node.js
4 285 (16.62%) Spring
5 269 (15.69%) RESTful
6 264 (15.39%) Spring Boot
7 231 (13.47%) REST
8 204 (11.90%) Kafka
9 180 (10.50%) ASP.NET
10 174 (10.15%) .NET Core
11 172 (10.03%) AngularJS
12 166 (9.68%) Vue
13 144 (8.40%) ASP.NET Core
14 88 (5.13%) HTML
15 86 (5.01%) ASP.NET Web API
16 84 (4.90%) .NET Framework
17 81 (4.72%) CSS
17 81 (4.72%) gRPC
18 78 (4.55%) Blazor
19 67 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 522 (30.44%) Cloud Native
2 294 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.62%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 34 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 30 (1.75%) Algorithms
12 29 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 28 (1.63%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
15 24 (1.40%) e-Learning
15 24 (1.40%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
16 22 (1.28%) Mobile App
17 20 (1.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.06%) Linux
2 45 (2.62%) Windows
3 20 (1.17%) Unix
4 9 (0.52%) CentOS
4 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.29%) Debian
6 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.17%) AIX
7 3 (0.17%) Android
7 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (50.85%) CI/CD
2 757 (44.14%) Agile
3 635 (37.03%) DevOps
4 621 (36.21%) Software Engineering
5 481 (28.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 414 (24.14%) Containerisation
7 398 (23.21%) Mentoring
8 361 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 352 (20.52%) Event-Driven
10 343 (20.00%) AI
11 333 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 316 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 294 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
14 236 (13.76%) Scrum
15 220 (12.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 211 (12.30%) Technical Leadership
17 202 (11.78%) TDD
18 196 (11.43%) Clean Code
19 194 (11.31%) Coaching
20 183 (10.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 564 (32.89%) Java
2 423 (24.66%) SQL
3 422 (24.61%) Python
4 413 (24.08%) C#
5 383 (22.33%) JavaScript
6 316 (18.43%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.94%) Go
8 49 (2.86%) Scala
9 45 (2.62%) PHP
10 42 (2.45%) Bash
10 42 (2.45%) C++
11 41 (2.39%) Ruby
12 25 (1.46%) C
13 24 (1.40%) Bicep
13 24 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 24 (1.40%) Rust
14 17 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.64%) Groovy
16 11 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 211 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 170 (9.91%) Degree
3 139 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.56%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 35 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (1.46%) CISSP
9 22 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.58%) CISM
14 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.47%) PhD
16 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.29%) GIAC
17 5 (0.29%) ISACA
17 5 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.17%) QA
2 58 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 39 (2.27%) GDPR
4 38 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.34%) NIST
5 23 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.34%) SOC 2
6 21 (1.22%) WCAG
7 16 (0.93%) NCSC
8 15 (0.87%) GRC
9 10 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
13 4 (0.23%) SEPA
14 3 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.17%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.17%) IFRS
14 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 502 (29.27%) Docker
2 21 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) Firmware
3 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 536 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 332 (19.36%) Terraform
3 95 (5.54%) Ansible
3 95 (5.54%) Grafana
4 53 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.34%) Argo
6 21 (1.22%) Kibana
7 15 (0.87%) Puppet
8 13 (0.76%) Cilium
9 12 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.23%) Packer
11 4 (0.23%) Podman
12 3 (0.17%) Rancher
13 2 (0.12%) Istio
13 2 (0.12%) MIIS
13 2 (0.12%) Nagios
13 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.058%) logstash
Vendors
1 244 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 71 (4.14%) Google
3 56 (3.27%) Oracle
4 45 (2.62%) Typelevel
5 32 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.40%) Splunk
7 23 (1.34%) Dynatrace
8 17 (0.99%) AppDynamics
9 16 (0.93%) IBM
10 14 (0.82%) Databricks
11 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.76%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.70%) Adobe
13 10 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.58%) SAP
14 9 (0.52%) OneLogin
14 9 (0.52%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.47%) Cisco
15 8 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
15 8 (0.47%) Guidewire